Your taxes have been used to arm, fund and fuel this dictatorship.
Why, exactly, has it armed and funded the janjaweed, bombed African villages, and purged or killed so many non-Arabs?
It is partly armed and funded by Syria and Iran, and accuses Israel of holding on to an area of Lebanese territory.
Mr Seselj's followers were transformed into a militia armed and funded by Mr Milosevic's secret police.
Since the early nineteen-nineties, Pakistan's principal military-intelligence service, Inter-Services Intelligence, or I.S.I., has armed and funded Lashkar to foment upheaval in Indian-held Kashmir.
And the refugees from Gaza are escaping decades of Israeli war, occupation and siege, which has been armed and funded by the US and EU.
But some analysts have argued such militias - reputed to be armed and funded by the ruling party - have only intensified the restlessness of the population.
But after their successes in Iraq, the jihadists re-emerged better armed and funded than their foes and have since pushed back.
IS are well armed and funded however and Obama warned that the group would not be defeated either quickly or easily.
I thought it was another indication of a force that, despite its good reputation, was not well armed or funded and was informally organized.
Syria says it is fighting armed militants funded and armed from abroad while residents say the crackdown is aimed at crushing pro-democracy protesters and those opposed to Assad.
